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e movement toward a breakup of the country, as Alawite supporters of the regime retreat to their ancestral homeland in the northwestern region around Latakia. And there’s no sign that either Assad or his Russian patrons are paying any more than lip service to a political settlement. One potential game-cha
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025057 →to a political settlement. One potential game-changer is a request for U.S. help in training elite rebel units, which has been drafted by Brig. Gen. Salim Idriss, the new commander of the opposition Free Syrian Army. In a letter dated Feb. 4, he seeks U.S. assistance in “training for: (1) special operations; (
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025057 →e movement toward a breakup of the country, as Alawite supporters of the regime retreat to their ancestral homeland in the northwestern region around Latakia. And there's no sign that either Assad or his Russian patrons are paying any more than lip service to a political settlement. One potential game-chan
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028691 →to a political settlement. One potential game-changer is a request for U.S. help in training elite rebel units, which has been drafted by Brig. Gen. Salim Idriss, the new commander of the opposition Free Syrian Army. In a letter dated Feb. 4, he seeks U.S. assistance in "training for: (1) special operations; (
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028691 →recent meeting with Putin over the Iran negotiations in Geneva), nor has the Israeli Air Force's destruction of newly arrived Yakhont missiles in Latakia several months ago jeopardized Israeli-Russian relations. Another incentive for Israel to court the Kremlin is that it clearly admires Russia's app
the situation in Syria today: a civil war among four main factions, in which the group supported by the United States, the Free Syrian Army of Gen. Salim Idriss, appears to be the weakest. Last weekend, the headquarters and main warehouse of the FSA were overrun by troops of the Saudi-funded Islamic Front.
Entities connected to both Latakia and Salim Idriss

Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Barack Obama
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Damascus
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Aleppo
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Cairo
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Yemen
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Jerusalem
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John Kerry
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Bahrain
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Middle East
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West Bank
LOCATIONthe Free Syrian Army
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Osama bin Laden
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Beirut
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